Galatians 2:11-19 - When Things Get Wonky

Listen along as we continue our journey through the letter of Galatians.

Notes//Quotes:

Galatians 2:11-19

“When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.” - Brennan Manning

Proverbs 29:25

God's love is a costly love. It never takes the easy path away from relationships. Instead, it plots how to move towards other people. It thinks creatively of ways to surprise them with love. - Ed Welch

“Dikaiosynē and pistis are chief among the qualities which make human associations possible.… For Cicero and others, pistis/fides and dikaiosynē are jointly foundational for any state. Sometimes justice is specified as the foundation of trust, and sometimes trust of justice.… When pistis/fides and dikaiosynē/iustitia come together in Greek and Roman texts, the power of each to forge social relationships, create polities, and change socio-political landscapes is multiplied.” - Teresa Morgan

“Paul’s approach makes all the difference. Paul did not simply say: You’re breaking the rules (even though Peter was), but: You’ve forgotten the gospel: your own gracious welcome in Christ. Paul did not focus so much on the sinful behavior as on the sinful attitude of self-righteousness that lay beneath it. God did not have fellowship with you on the basis of your race and culture (v 15). Though you were good and devout, your race and customs had nothing to do with it (v 16). Therefore, how can you have fellowship on the basis of race and culture (v 14) - Tim Keller

[Pistis] is, first and foremost, neither a body of beliefs nor a function of the heart or mind, but a relationship which creates community.  - Teresa Morgan

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, "A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God…My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.” Brennan Manning